AIM information

On 06/28/2010 10:09 AM, Gonzalo Amor wrote:
>> “Through communications with another one of our technology partners we
> have been informed that AIM is planning to decommission the 5.x / 6.x
> protocol's by mid July.”
>> So, if this is true, how will this affect pidgin?
>>
While I'm not a developer, AIM is currently on 7.3.x protocol. I'm
fairly certain Pidgin is at least on 7.x.
Typically, if there's a major revision to a protocol, a non compliant
client would cease to work - when you are unable to connect with a
protocol, and the answer is "You need to upgrade", that's a good hint
that the developers of Pidgin had to upgrade the client protocol. If
Pidgin were using a 6.x or 5.x protocol, I'm fairly certain it would not
connect to the AIM servers.
I could be totally wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not :)